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interview. deja vu. mad money and modern family win big once again at the emmy awards as charlie sheen comes face to face with ashton kutcher his remakesment on two and a half men. we ll tell you what happened during their backstage meeting we ll tell you what happened during their backstage meeting monday, september 19th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning alongside ann curry just back from iran. i mean just back. you got in yesterday afternoon. so good to be sitting back next to you. i wish we were all welcoming back the hikers instead of me. looks like it will take a couple more days. you ve been following closely. i m sure we ll have the latest. welcome back. nice to have you here. meanwhile, a look any look world war ii-era plane that slammed into the crowd out in reno, nevada. and learning more about the some of the victims of that accident including the heroic actions of a father to save his son. we ll have the details on that in a live report ahead. also just ahead. police in aruba plan to re-enact the drowninging of robyn gardner. can it provide information to solve the sick week-old case and why has the prime suspect refused to take place. the latest member of his defense team, we ll speak to him, jose baez. also as we mentioned former president bill clinton is here in our studio bringing together some of the world s top minds this week to try to figure out how to jump-start the global economy and the struggling jobs market. we ll talk to him about that and also get his take on the 2012 presidential race, as well. as some other topics as we discuss the clinton global initiative. but let s begin the latest with the latest on the investigation into that deadly air show disaster out in nevada. nbc s george lewis is in reno. george, good morning, what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, matt. investigators are looking at new evidence contained on a bunch of memory cards like this one they found in the wreckage. these cards could hold the possible key to solving the cause of the wreckage if data from them can be recovered. new video this morning of the ill-fated p-51 mustang, a world war ii vintage fighter airplane and the moment of the crash. it turns out the plane carried some modern technology. the investigators have found that the aircraft was equipped with a video camera facing outward. they have also found camera fragments at the site. reporter: it had a data recorder to track performance information. that could yield clues about what happened as a piece of the plane s tail section appeared to come off in flight. sunday night the ntsb released a photo of the part that detached. ntsb investigators wrapped up their search of the crash site on sunday. pieces will be taken to a secure area for further analysis. stay where you are. if you re down, stay down. reporter: this as more stories of heroics amid the chaos of the crash scene begin to emerge. one of the spectators who died, john craik may have been trying to save his son and his son s two friends. they survived. he probably sheltered his son and that s the kind of guy he was. reporter: one thing that may come out of this, a set of recommendations from the ntsb about improving safety at air shows and preventing further tragedies like this one. a very preliminary report on their findings will be released this coming friday. matt? george lewis out in nevada for us. george, thank you very much. it s now four minutes after the hour. here s ann. matt, thanks. now to politics. this morning president obama will unveil his plans for more than $3 trillion in deficit reductions. his proposals are recommendations to a supercommittee charged with finding big budget savings by thanksgiving. nbc s christian welker is at the white house with more. good morning. reporter: good morning. senior administration officials say president obama will speak from the rose garden and will pledge to veto any bill that performs entitlements without increasing tax revenue. some of the highlights of the president s plan he ll announce later on today. it will unveil $580 billion, but social security is off the table. a trillion and a half from tax revenues including letting the bush tax cuts expire and rolling back tax breaks on wealthy americans. now, the reforms to the tax code will be guided but the buffett rule named after warren buffett and says that millionaires can t be taxed at a lower rate than middle class americans. now, the president hasn t even spoken yet, but the battle lines are already being drawn with democrats saying they like this plan. they like that social security is off the table. but some republicans say they won t support anything that increases taxes. they say that part of the plan is dead on arifle. kristen, thank you. we ll talk to former president bill clinton about his ideas and what he thinks we should be doing. to the other top stories. natalie is standing by at the news desk. good morning. we missed you, ann. good morning, everyone. in his first interview since a new york hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, dominique strauss-kahn said he regretted the incident calling the sexual encounter a moral failing. he denied using, though, violence against nafissatou diallo. a new york judge waived the sexual assault charges against strauss-kahn last month. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad arrived in new york for the united nations general assembly. iran s courts, meanwhile, are considering a $1 million bail deal to release those two american hikers jailed there but the hikers must wait until tuesday for a second judge to approve the deal. as you heard it was tv s biggest night at the emmy awards. modern family swept up a total of five statues including best comedy series again and mad money won again for best drama. meanwhile, alec baldwin brought drama of his own and refused to appear on the show after fox sensored a joke he made about the parent company news corps and their ongoing hacking scandal, however, charlie sheen was cool as a cucumber and wished his former castmates on two and a half men all the best as they start their new season without him this week, even tweeted this picture of himself with his replacement on the show ashton kutcher. much more on the emmys still ahead. 7:07. back to matt, ann and stefanie. he generally seemed to mean it. water under the bridge. no question about it, natalie, thank you very much. al has the morning off. we have weather channel stephanie abrams in with a look. stephanie abrams is in with a look at the forecast. let s talk about the rain we re seeing anywhere from the ohio river valley all the way to texas where we need it so desperately. we ll continue to see this front march eastbound we head over the next 24 hours. we could see heavier rain along the gulf coast, up to two inches in certain places in eastern louisiana. otherwise, throughout the rest of the country, it s going to be dry up and down the i-95 corridor. here s a look at what s happening outside your door. feeling like autumn this morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. we have clouds around the region this morning. in the 50s throughout much of the area except out in the mountains, many locations dipped in the 40s. 60 at reagan national. later today climbing the the low 70s and partly sunny. clouds around for tuesday, wednesday and thursday, a clans for showers each day and should be a bit milder. friday, still a possibility of a few passing matt, over to you. all right, stephanie, thank you very much. now back to politics and a morning exclusive. what will it take to turn the nation s struggling economy around? we re joined now by the former president of the united states, bill clinton, mr. president, good to see you. thank you, matt. sixth global initiative getting that under way in new york this week and you ll bring together the top minds in the world and the world of business. i guess we would all want to be a fly on the wall and we would want to pull up a chair because one of the things you ll be discussing is jobs, jobs, jobs. are you going to come up or hear ideas you think can dramatically help? i tell you yes and no, that is, keep in mind, we work all over the world. uh-huh. and there are literally hundreds of millions of people looking for jobs all over the world. this is a global meltdown. and the crash occurred in 2008 about four months before the president took office, and if you go back several hundred years on average when the financial system collapses, it takes longer for countries to get out of it. at least five years. so we d be talking about how to speed it up in areas where that s occurred and in areas where you didn t have it, how to speed it up. yes, i think there will be a lot of good ideas. cynics are going to listen to what you re saying, mr. clinton and say five years, he s saying it will take four or five years. conveniently that takes us right through the election and we should have patience. i know you re looking at history. conveniently that s the truth. when the japanese did it and they had a lot more stimulus spending than we did because they had more money, because they hadn t gone back he they didn t double the debt before it happened as the previous administration in congress did, it still took them ten years to get out of it because they didn t reform their banking system. i think the quickest thing we could do to move out of this would be to clear this mortgage debt more quickly, that is, the everybody that s got an underwater mortgage where it s worth more than the house or lengthening it out, if they could still make the payment, give the people the option to convert it into rent and that to cover the taxes and utilities and maintenance instead of dumping more houses on the market. there are lots of variations on that. if you did that and you cleaned up the banks balance sheets then i think there s enough money in the banks and in corporate treasuries to get this economy going again. we could beat the five-year period but would have to you sit down in your role these days and meet with some of the biggest business leaders in the world and particularly in this country. by all accounts businesses, corporations in this country are sitting on about $2 trillion in cash. that s correct. and not spending it. they re not hiring people. when you talk to those leaders, what is the one reason they give you that they re afraid to spend that money and hire people? well, first, they don t give me just one reason. the demand is weak. they re not sure that if they do hire more people, the products they make will be sold. most of them believe that we should have a more competitive tax system in america, no one complains about the price of labor. no one complains about the quality of labor. all the corporations that i talked to said the american workers are highly productive and work like crazy, they re more flexible. they like that. so what i think what we have to do is to find ways sector by sector to increase sales for them and to make our business taxes more competitive. there s some businesses that pay as little as 15% on their income and others that pay the full 35% and we need to level it out so everybody pays about the same. you talk about increasing the markets and i m getting people to buy things so let s talk about the average consumer, okay. people out there hearing terms like double-dip recession that we re back in the dumps in the economy and the average consumer says this is the time to hunker down. i am going to cut to the bone. i m not going to spend. if you were still president how would you convince the average consumer out there that they ve got to help us by spending all way out of this recession? well, first we can t completely spend our way out of the recession. the problem keep in mind, before the financial collapse occurred in september 2008, our economy had had eight years with virtually no job growth because all the economic growth was in consumer spending and finance and home buying. so there s some understandable reluctance and what i would say to the consumer there, you don t have to overdo it. if the president s plan to lower the payroll tax 50% passes, that s worth about $1,500 to every family. if let s say they re worried about it. if every family spent a thousand of it and saved 500 of it, then that would help to grow the economy. and begin to start this again. keep in mind in addition to what you said about corporations, the banks have $2 trillion uncommitted to loans, there s enough money here to get this thing going again. as part of what the president is going to announce this morning, his long-term deficit reduction plan, the buffett rule and heard a lot about it after buffett came out and said, look, you have to have wealthier americans pay more and mitch mcconnell said we ve thrown a big wet blanket over the private sector economy and now we re threatening to raise taxes on top of it. that s not going to get the economy moving. what s your reaction to that? that s what they always say. that s what they said about me. they said when i asked when i became president, we had a different kind of recession but i asked that the same the wealthiest americans who had had their incomes grow the most in eight years before i took office and had had repeated tax cuts to give back some of that money so we could balance the budget and get interest rates down and it worked and all the time that the republicans in washington always say the same thing, any tax on any upper income person is bad because they re job creator. it s an insult to those people. they don t mind being asked to pay their fair share and if their incomes went up more and they certainly 90% of the income gains in the last decade went to the top 10% of us. 40% to the top 1% of us who also got the lion s share of the tax you re saying it s the same old, same old. 1995, you re president of the united states. have bob dole running the senate and newt gingrich running the house and now barack obama, he s got the senate but he s got john boehner over in the house. you got things done. you know, you reformed social security. you balanced the budget. what s different today? what s changed? well, first of all, we got things done in the election year, 1996. in 1995, we didn t get much done because they shut the government down twice trying to force me to agree to eliminate the environmental protection agency and eliminate then they decided to work with you. because the american people made their preferences clear so i think all this i think first of all speaker boehner, i think, would like to have a relationship with president obama but he doesn t want a working relationship at the expense of being kicked out as speaker and, you know, the american people voted for this house of representatives. they put them tea party in control of the house, and so they basically are two minds here. it will ee play out i think pretty much the way it did i in 95/ 96. it s clearly a changed dynamic. politics ahead of the good of the country. when you travel around the world as part of your role for the global initiative, do you find the similar dynamic in other countries all over the world. no, all over the world, the conservatis and liberals disagree about how much should be taxes, how much should be spending cuts, you know, but they always are talking about how to do something. their arguments are much more rooted in the real world. they re much more interested in what works. this is the only major country that i go to where people just take a position that it doesn t matter, that there s no facts to support it. like and i really a lot of people is it true of democrats and republicans by the way? they don t play politics equally? no, no, the democrats are not blameless and democrats will be given a chance to deal with the long-term problems in health care spending, but mostly this is the anti-government extreme position that you see on this tax thing. that, no, we ll never raise another penny on taxes no matter how well off they are. it scares people around the world. they think americans have basically voted for a government that s ideological and too uprooted from facts and that bothers them. 39% of the people right now think barack obama is doing a good job. 52% do not. you add to that 9.1% unemployment. can he get re-elected? oh, yeah, it s a little bit early to be writing his obituary and it s a little bit early to be worried about it. look, this country is hurting. you say 9% unemployment but we all know it s more than that. it s de facto 15%. if you look at how many have quit looking for jobs, they re not counted. if you look at how many people are in part-time jobs that don t have full-time jobs, that s all that really matters. i think what he did is a good thing, what he s going to do, saying, okay, when the economy gets going again, here s what i think we should do to bring the deficit down. that s a good thing, but right now what we need to do is get the economy going again. i think what i m trying to do is gather people to talk about what will get the banks to loan and get the corporations to spend and what would do that not just here but in other places around the world. we ve sat down and talked about your global initiative on a number of occasions. one of the things that s always impressed me. you re really good in a closed room. i mean you get people to commit to things to invest money that they perhaps didn t even think they were going to invest. you know, you put the squeeze on them and i mean that in the nicest possible way. are you surprised at how good you are at that? it s easier when there s no politics involved. i everybody if all the politicians and the business people would bring the same attitude to this in washington that we can here because nobody is running for anything, i think it would have the same results. we need to we just need to focus on what works again and what works here it is in a sentence, what works in bringing the economy back is cooperation. what works in getting on the news programs and politics is conflict. conflict is great for politics, great for news coverage, lousy for economic policy. that s what the problem is. we got to go back to a cooperative environment where everybody kicks in a little. 30 seconds to end on a lighter note. when you were president, you were known for your appetite. man, you loved the doughnuts and junk food. anything southern fried. now we sit here and you re just turned 65. had a quadruple bypass and you re a vegan. no, you know, when you get older your appetites change and abate and you re more interested in having another good day so i ha had s like to have as many good days as possible and this seems the best way to get it. nice to have you. just ahead, complete coverage of last night s prime time emmy awards putting a run-in between charlie sheen and ashton kutcher. this is today on nbc. i am a face unclogger. i am a nose coach. i am a throat untickler. i am a human cough suppressant. and i am the sniffles worst nightmare. i am a target pharmacist. ask me about cold and flu remedies. just ahead police in aruba reknack the disappearance of robyn gardner. we re in live. and talk about the newest member of the prime suspect s defense team, jose baez, right after your local news. capital one s new cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody. would you like 50% more cash? 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[ coughing continues ] log on to lungusa.org and tell washington: don t weaken clean air protections. 7:30 on this monday morning, the 19th of september, 2011. a chilly morning this morning out in the plaza. at summer winds down and take a look. a lot of exuberant fans. alongside matt lauer and we ll here from marine sergeant dakota meyer putting himself in front of enemy fire five separate times and saved 36 members of his team and he ll share his remarkable story coming up. need more people like that in this country. also ahead, casey anthony s parents respond to the most shocking allegations made at their daughter s murder trial. we ll hear from them including their revealing answer when asked if they would let casey baby-sit if her brother has a child. meantime, i didn t get a chance to watch the emmy awards. all the highlights if you missed it. we ll break down the winners and snubs and backstage encounter between charlie sheen and ashton kutcher, charlie s replacement on two and a half men coming up. let s begin with new developments in the disappearance of robyn gardner in aruba. in a moment we ll talk emotionally to jose baez, the newest member of the defense team for gary giordano, the prime suspect in the case but jeff rossen is in aruba with the latest. jeff, good morning to you. reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you. hard to believe it s been six weeks since all of this began, still no sign of robyn and no direct evidence that gary giordano did anything to her. that there was any crime committed. today for the first time, police are going to head down to the beach a couple of mys from where i m standing where robyn was last seen and they re going to re-enact her final moments. police have combed this beach over and over again looking for robyn gardner, but nothing. the prime suspect, gary giordano, even helped them before thhis arrest but leads a drying up and they ll do something today they haven t done before. act out the scene, step by step, moment by moment. so how is this going to work. the police are going to be actors and will go into the water with snorkel gear and be gary and robyn and follow exactly the first statement that gary actually made. reporter: to see if what he said is actual possible? it s the most important part of the investigation right now. reporter: gary giordano claims it was a snorkeling accident. robyn got pulled under and he saved himself, that there was no crime. but there were no witnesses. this surveillance video licensed exclusively by nbc news may be the key putting robyn and gary together right before her disappearance on august 2nd. robyn looks relaxed and carefree at this beachside restaurant. law enforcement sources tell nbc news police asked giordano to e reenact it but he declined. they re taking it seriously. secondly more important you may find evidence that hasn t been found before. reporter: even without giordano s cooperation, the surveillance tape reveals his behavior in the minutes after he reported her missing. shirtless wearing a bathing suit he returns to the restaurant looking for help, knocking on doors. no one answered. do you believe he s innocent? i believe he s innocent. reporter: gary giordano s father frank speaks with his son in prison by phone. he called the conditions behind bars miserable, but now a sudden change. sounds a lot better mentally and physically than he did the last time i talked to him. getting used to his surroundings, i m afraid. reporter: we re told police wanted to do the reenactment today because the wind and water currents are pretty much similar to the day robyn disappeared. they ve been waiting quite a while for that to line up to see if it s possible for her body to wash out if she was, in fact, drowned or what else could have happened. important to note that gary giordano remains behind bars here but still hasn t been charged with anything. all right, jeff rossen in aruba this morning. jeff, thank you very much. jose baez was lead attorney for casey anthony. now a member of gary giordano s defense team and with us exclusively. good morning to you. good morning, matt. what kind of role do you expect to play on the defense according to the laws in aruba? you can t argue this in case. what goes into your role? i ll be involved in the defense investigation and analyzing the forensic evidence, coordinating the presentation of evidence and assisting with whatever matters may arise here in the united states. based on what you ve seen so far, is he getting the kind of representation he needs in aruba and will you bring members of your team down there to add to that team? well, we probably will add to the team but most likely in the area of forensic science if any surfaces, serge it doesn t look like that s going to be possible. as jeff mentioned in his piece he sits in jail. has not binghamton charged with a crime and denies being involved in any crime. you ve met with him on several occasions. what s his level of frustration? well, just like anyone else would be in this position but, in fact, let me correct you, he s in prison, not in jail. they ve moved him from the jail over to the prison where he is currently with convicted felons, violent offenders and in conditions that are extremely deplorable. talk to me about what you know so far, jose, about the strength of the prosecution s case? i almost hesitate to say the strength of the case because he hasn t been charged with a crime yet but what do they think they have that allows them to keep him in prison? i think the aruban authorities are under a great deal of pressure because of the natalee holloway situation. previously unsolved murder. absolutely and they don t want to appear like they re not doing an extensive job or a thorough investigation. i think they ve done an extensive and thorough investigation in this case. unfortunately, they re not being able to turn up anything because there is no evidence he committed a crime because he simply did not commit a crime. a couple of the facts in the story so far. gary giordano says he and robyn gardner were snorkeling on the day she disappeared. they became separated and that he then feared for his life so returned to shore. feared for his life, why? because the currents and the conditions got extremely bad immediately. i ve been down there. i ve seen the location. it s calm one minute and it can get rough the next. so things like that do happen when you re out in the waters and, in fact, a year and a half ago a japanese couple drifted out to sea and drowned. so based on your conversations and i know that s attorney/client privilege but does he think there s a possibility that robyn gardner is still alive? i don t think so. you know, we re going along the lines that she drowned. i know there s lots of speculation. that s just another bit of speculation. certainly if robyn was still alive she would have turned up by now. she would have presented herself and gary wouldn t be going through this. the thing that raises the most eyebrows is here s a guy that took out a $1.5 million accidental death policy before this trip named himself as the beneficiary in the event of robyn gardner s death and you have to ask, that s so random. why would he do that? well, i can give you a perfectly good explanation that has not been out there and the fact is it s a travel insurance policy. right. and accidental death clause in it. and rental clause, medical, dental. he previously went on a trip where he incurred a lot of loss and since he traveled numerous times with the same travel policy and with other companions that he has taken out this travel policy on who are alive and well and fine and this was just an unfortunate incident that occurred while they were on vacation. real quickly, the police are conducting a reenactment today hoping to re-create conditions of robyn gardner s disappearance and perhaps drowning. gary giordano has refused to take part, why? well, when the issue came up, my vote was no way. i think it s absurd to try and re-create the and replicate the conditions of the ocean on a specific day two months ago. i don t think it s possible. i think and the solicitor general has come out publicly and said we re doing this to shoot holes in his story. well, when all else fails and you reach the level of desperation that s exactly what they try to do and i ve deferred to the aruban lawyers because i m not licensed in that jurisdiction, however, gary, it s ultimately up to gary what he decides to do and fortunately in my opinion he s decided against it. jose baez. thanks for joining us. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. 7:39. a check of the weather from stephanie abrams in for . chilly here into the northeast. the same all the way down into the deep south. warming up through the plains as we head through the day today and some showers. as i was mentioning, from texas, ye haw, excited about it all the way into the great lakes. here is a look at what s happening outside your door. good morning. cloudy in the metro area and points west. points east have sunshine around the bay and eastern shore. temperatures there in the 50s, closer to washington. upper 50s to near 60. way out farther to the west out of the mountains, many locations dipped into the 40s. partly cloudy there. partly sunny monday. afternoon highs low to mid 7s. mid 70s and a possibility of morning and midday showers on tuesday. might get an afternoon shower wednesday is the main time for that. greater chance of more showers like a pirate day. national talk like a pirate. arrr. i don t know how pirates talk. we ll have to work on that. all right, stephanie, thank you very much. up next, a marine who was just awarded the medal of honor for saving 36 lives in afghanistan. he ll share a remarkable story right after this. -i love this card. -with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, we earn more cash back for the things we buy most. it s 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% on groceries. 3% on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. that s 1% cash back on oscar. .tony. oscar! 2% back on whatever she ll eat. 3% back on filling up this baby. 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[ applause ] reporter: all six nominees for best actors in a comedy series took to the stage and brought the crowd to its feet before melissa mccarthy of mike & molly was crowned the winner. my first and best pageant ever. reporter: and though she didn t win for best supporting actress first time host glee s jane lynch is getting rave reviews for a fun-filled show, matt. kristen dahlgren out in los angeles, thank you very much. i didn t get to see the show but hearing from our control room when charlie sheen got up there to wish the cast of two and a half men the best of the season, the season almost didn t know how to react. right. sounded like he was going to be sarcastic but then he wasn t. anyway, also talking about the fashions, by the way. that s right, but first a look at your local news. i love this time of year but my nose doesn t. it gets stuffed up and that means i stay up all night. good mornings? not likely! i ve tried the pills, the sprays even some home remedies. then i tried something new. 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some of the most memorable outfits of the evening. that is fun. we women love to take a look at fashions. it is fun. also speaking of women, great information for women on their health. the four vaccines you simply must know about. we ll get to that but first a check of the news and we ve got natalie, of course, at the news desk. good morning again, ann and matt and good morning, everyone. president obama unveils his plan to cut the deficit by more than $3 trillion today. the highlights include $1 trillion in savings by drawing down troops in iraq and afghanistan. and saving the $580 billion by reforming medicare and medicaid if congress agrees to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy. changes to social security are off the table. investigators are searching memory cards from an onboard camera for clues to what caused the air show crash that killed at least nine people friday in reno, nevada. world war ii era plane went down near a crowd of spectators after losing a piece of its tail section apparently. police are blaming the pakistani taliban for a car bombing that killed eight in karachi this morning. the attack comes just a day after secretary of state hillary clinton asked them to crack down on the violence there. a new report says the increased use of nighttime raids by u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan causes resentment that undercuts whatever military gains they produce according to the open society foundation. it says night raid tactics have improved and have reduced civilian casualties. now, let s head to wall street and melissa francis is at the new york stock exchange. how is wall street starting off. good morning to you. yeah, all about government paying their bills. the focus on greece, the imf eneu not releasing any more rescue funds to them until they clean up their act and cut spending. greece is supposed to get another $11 billion next month. in the meantime, major indices around the world are sagging on the lack of an end game. u.s. indices fall as well even though the dow was up 500 points last week. back to you. thank you. now for a look at what s trending. our quick round of what have you looking. financial heavyweights on russian tv going viral. a billionaire millionaire tycoon landed two punches on a billionaire tycoon. qwikster is the talk. netflix will rename part of their division as qwikster. charlie sheen, the talk of the web when he wished nothing but the best for his old series two and a half men at last night s emmy awards and even tweeted this picture of himself with his replacement on the show, ashton kutcher. meanwhile, alec baldwin pulled out of the fox tv broadcast after learning a pretaped joke about ceo rupert murdoch s hacking scandal had been cut. he tweeted if i were enmeshed in a scandal where i hacked phones of families of innocent crime victims purely for profit, i d want that to go away too. back to ann and matt. alec baldwin, the first, we ll hear from him. mean we ll hear from him on that. meantime. a check of the weather. al is off today. stephanie abrams is joining us. hey this, matt and ann. i m with a group that wants you to go to this website and say what cancer research has done for you. kathy surviving breast cancer? 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not only is the interviewer but as an expert what did you take away from george s answer? that s a difficult thing to be accused of the most heinous crime any parent could be accused of but i thought he looked me square in the eye and answered in a forthright fashion. you conclude? my conclusion is that he did not molest his daughter and i don t think it s even a close call. you said her brother lee is about to get married and you re about to become grandparents. absolutely. would you feel comfortable with casey baby-sitting that grandchild. i think would. you would let casey baby-sit. i think lee would allow her to baby-sit, as well. that s a decision for lee and his future wife mallory to make. if cindy and lee have a relationship with casey, that s great. i don t think i can have that relationship again with my daughter. maybe somewhere down the road i might change my mind. i do love her. i don t like what she s done to the family. you asked a very interesting question which i think took george and cindy by surprise. you think you caught them off guard. well, after spending as much time as i had with cindy, i guess at one level i might have predicted her response, but i think george answered very honestly. i think he said at the end of the section part of the interview that, you know, he is very suspicious that casey had a very active role in causing the death, not just covering it up after the fact. reporter: casey anthony was, of course, acquitted on the murder charges that she allegedly murdered her daughter caylee. meantime, casey is in the state of florida where she s serving a one-year probation but that is for check fraud. matt? all right, kerry sanders in miami, thank you very much. jeanine pirro is host of justice with jeanine. before we get to specifics your overall reaction to what you heard in this interview? not a lot of new news. i don t think i don t think any of this is surprising that the mother feels it s her mothering skills on the line, it s her daughter who she loves. she sides with her daughter, that the father who has been accused of molestation would be wounded beyond belief and really unable to continue the relationship. look, i don t think there was any surprise in this. i sat in that courtroom. cindy is the ultimate apologist for her daughter who is at best is an irresponsible mother and at worst someone directly involved in the killing and george anthony is someone understandably angry. he s been accused of the taboo, the molestation of his daughter. no evidence, no proof. he wasn t in a position to defend himself. one specific point when cindy anthony took to the stand during the trial and talked about she was the one conducting those searches for chloroform on the internet, later it turned out the searches themselves were called into question. most people say she perjured herself. she denies it, by the way. we knew when she stepped off the witness stand and looked at her daughter and mouthed i love you, we almost fell off our chairs but she cinched it when she took blame for the chloroform. it was provable perjury. i don t think the prosecution had a stomach to go after another anthony. there s another point where in the interview with dr. phil george anthony is talking about the possibility that casey used some sort of drugs, as a chemical baby-sitter on her daughter and cindy looked and said that s the first time in three years i ve ever heard that come out of his mouth. it raised the question to me what do they talk about? obviously, you know, you never know in a marriage. let me just say that. sometimes couples talk about remarkably little. but in this case that s going to be the determining factor as to whether they survive or not as a couple. in private, does he say to her, look, this isn t i feel this way but i don t think it s your fault. you were a good mother, in private does she say to him, look, i don t believe you molested our child. if those things don t go on. if there is no talking of that sort like we saw evidence there might not be, i don t see a future here. i don t believe it. i don t believe it s the first time she ever heard him say it s possible she chloroformed our granddaughter. that was the issue in the trial. it s been two years. i think that cindy apologizes and excuses everything. i don t think she s on this planet. gentlemen near pirro and gail saltz, appreciate it. the fashions on display at last night emmy awards. we trablg a look at those right after this. so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody. would you like 50% more cash? 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[ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. back now at 8:19 with the fashions on display at last night s emmy awards. who impressed on the red carpet and who came up short. lloyd boston of the style checklist is with us and jill martin is a u.s. weekly contributor so thank you first of all both of you for that. great to be back. one of the headlines, there was a lot of red on the red carpet. it s a smart choice. i mean you have to be a powerful woman to pull it off and i think if you don t come with that kind of confidence it may not work so kate winslet we saw in a gorgeous red gown. carrie washington looked amazing. simple jewelry. looks like it s growing but if you have curves like sofia ha, that s a great choice. a body skimming, a marquesa. she plays a teen sometimes and a woman other times but knows how to straddle the fence. she was the hit of the night and makes everybody s hit list. look at this. it s just beautiful and knows how to work the red carpet. it s the cowl neck. one of the only ones in marquesa. she looked fabulous and one of the only ones that will make everyone great entrance and great exit. what about the aforementioned of sophia have v. look at her in vera wang. about her jewelry, do you like them? they re huge. those earrings, i mean she always has so much fun on the red carpet. she could look beautiful in anything. i think she worked it. notice the earrings don t match the dress. a lot would go matchy-matchy. i love the latin flair. good sense of humor it s great. let s talk about julianna margulies. how are we going to do there? you re shaking your head already. the positive first. i thought the shape was beautiful. all right. i didn t like the embellishments. sort of those big teardrop armani preve. judy jetson called and wants her dress back. look at this dress. she s never she s always on my hit list. this is armani and she chose it the night before at 9:00 p.m. she did a collection for lady gaga. maybe it was in that. i m just saying i always think she s beautiful and a hit but that dress did not work on her body. she looks better than i could look in any dress but gwyneth paltrow, what do you think? i love gwyneth because she thumbs her nose to the red carpet these days. always been a risk taker. she s showing full mid riff. looked a lot better in person i have to tell you because it s sexy and knows her lines but i also think she doesn t like to play into the current trends. she follows her own are we seeing like she s wearing is that see through and her legs on her. sheer illusion. she said when she was on the red carpet, i think this is really see-through. i don t think she realized how see-through it was. oh, come on. with her stomach exposed she usually is fabulous. i don t know how you get on the red carpet without knowing. what about heidi klum. i wasn t digging it. i tell you why i wasn t digging it because i think heidi always looks best in something more classic. you know, she s giving one of her former contestants a nod, christian seriano. in classic shape she always looks stronger. the woman i know as a model. you re not even done with the list. we have to go. you had so much to say. we have to bring you guys back on later. we ll talk to lloyd boston and jill martin. i m sure many, many times about this. thank you very much for that. now here s matt. all right, ann, thank you very much. the much anticipated drama the playboy club stars eddie sibrian, a lawyer with a dark past. evening trip. nice work. who knew a broad could be such a good lawyer. is she new? glad you re having fun. eddie, good morning. welcome back. thank you. nick dalton is perfect. kind of. kind of. what s the problem with this guy. this guy obviously he gets involved with the bunnies and that complicates his life, period. but he has a mysterious past. he was involved, you know, a little bit with the mob and so he s trying to break free from that. i know actors and show creator probably even more hate it when you compare one show to another but already there are comparisons between this show, some people said it s kind of like mad money meets the godfather. fair or unfair. i think it s a little unfair. what else are you going to compare it to because that s the only other show based in this era that s on television so really you re going to compare it to that but they re completely unique shows. mad money is a very is subtle kind of fluence show and, you know, we re doing a big network show that will be a lot more glitz and glamour and sex withness and visually appealing. the show hasn t even aired yet, as i mentioned. premieres tonight and already received backlash from the parents tv council. they re reaction to the whole playboy club element. true. that s the thing. i think playboy in general, the brand has been steeped in controversy since its inception but what i don t understand they ve never seen our show. our show is not about proliferation will the playboy embuyer but around the playboy club and everything that goes around that in the 1960s and all the characters that come into that playboy club and mingle and this and that so really i don t know why there is this kind of controversy at all. and there s some who might argue that a little controversy never hurt. but clearly you want people to take the show for what it is. of course, yes. eddie eddie sibian, nice to have you here. 8:26 is your time on this monday, september 19, 2011. i m eun yang. let s go meteorologist kierein with a look at the forecast. skies clearing? no, still cloudy around the metro area. sunshine around the bay and eastern shore. temperatures there in the 50s to near 60s. farther to the west in the 50s. 40s in the mountains. later today a little sunshine in and out. cloudiness, highs reaching low 70s. cloudy with a chance of showers tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. highs each day in the 70s to near 80. over the weekend, sun back and a bit cooler. we ll take a good morning. southbound on 295, an accident at howard roadway. inner loop 495 at telegraph, an accident blocking the left lane. outer loop in maryland still slow. delays continue to georgia avenue. thanks, danella. tit s about building cars in america. it s all about jobs. it s all about respect. security. the american dream. 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[ jamaul ] right here in america. hyundai is an all-american success story. the playboy club premieres tonight on nbc. 8:30 on this monday morning. the 19th of september,2011. look at all these nice people that have come to say hello to their loved ones back home. and the wind is blowing. i m ann curry alongside natalie morales. matt is inside because he has an assignment he s on. we were talking about a tragic coincidence. two high-profile political families lost on the same day over the weekend and those died at the age of 51. we ll have details on this story coming up. very, very sad. all right, in switching gears former playbook playmate kendra now reality star out with a new book. in it she opens up about her new life as wife and a new mom. we re going to talk to her about that and what we can expect in the upcoming fourth season of the show on e! okay. all right. we got a kiss blown to us from her. i want to say congratulations to you because i understand you re one of the universal team nautica runners on saturday. a good friend of mine. we actually our whole team of 205 people raised $130,000 out of $1.1 million for the children s hospital of los angeles. that s my team crossing the finish. your husband on the left. yes and my friend on the bike and i did the run for the relay team. we competed saturday, as well. a great experience. congratulations to the nbc universal team collectively they all lost 444 pounds, as well so it was all great, great cause and they did very well. well done, natalie. thanks so much. let s get a check of the weather. i think i gave you a of the weather. i think i gave you a preview. stephanie abrams fshlgs i think you should be wearing a coat. i figured we could survive. we have survivors of the parkersburg f-5 tornado. no zef veefr weather in iowa. let s have a look at what we ll deal with as we head through the week. we will see the temperatures below normal through portions of the northern plains, also the east coast as we head early through the week. later in the week we are going to continue to see the below average temperatures through the center of the country, above normal on the east coast. later in the week with the front moving eastbound, the colder air will move east as well. here is a look at what s happening outside your door. right now quite a bit of cloudiness around the washington metro area. sunshine east around the bay and the eastern shore. temperatures in the 50s to around 60. a bit cooler in the mountains of western maryland and west virginia where it s in the 40s. later today climbing in the low 70s and part any sunny. tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday each day clouds around with afternoon highs in the 70s and morning lows in the 60s. we ll finally get sunshine back looks like just in time for the weekend, saturday and sunday, and for your weather 24 hours a day just go to weather.com. these guys behind me, they sure look familiar to all of you 30 rock fans. hi. we are going by 30 kenneth look-alikes, our way of letting you know the hit on nbc will be airing in syndication five nights a week so make sure you check out your local listings. enjoy, everyone. congratulations 30 rock. back to you guys. they all have a future there. very good, stephanie abrams, thanks so much. still ahead reality star kendra wilkinson opens up about her personal difficulties but first this is today on nbc. 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[ coughing continues ] log on to lungusa.org and tell washington: don t weaken clean air protections. back now at 8:36 with a sad death that has two prominent political families in mourning today. kara kennedy, daughter of the late ted kennedy and eleanor mondale, both were just 51 years old. here s nbc s kelly o donnell. reporter: the only daughter of senator edward kennedy, kara was born the year her uncle john f. kennedy won the white house when another president awarded the highest honor it was kara who accepted for her father. two weeks later she greeted mourners and led a prayer when ted kennedy was laid to rest in 2009. may his name be blessed forever as long as the sun, his name shall remain. reporter: kara endured a grueling fight against lung cancer and died of an apparent heart attack after a workout at a washington health club. brother patrick said the cancer had taken a toll on her bother. her mother joan kennedy said she is with ted. kara s ambition was not politics but a life behind the camera as a filmmaker and most of all mother to grace who turned 17 today and 14-year-old max. the former vice president and mondale family grieve the loss of daughter eleanor would had long been at ease in the light generated by a famous family. i like campaigning for my dad because it gives me an opportunity to tell people about him. reporter: she embraced her own life as a tv and entertainment reporter and saturday her parents said, their daughter had waged a gutsy battle with brain cancer. eleanor in 2009. i m not going to die. not going to get me. i m going to be all right. reporter: two daughters of american politics who were simply given too few years. kara kennedy and eleanor mondale were just 51 years old. for today, kelly o donnell, nbc news, washington. dr. nancy sneiderman is nbc s chief medical editor. i should have said kara. how common is it to have a heart attack at the age of 51. it s not common but i think we have to separate the sort of women and heart disease which we know is the number one killer of women from a young woman who battled cancer and had been through a course of chemotherapy agents. some of them were standard and aggressive agents. can weaken the lungs and can weaken the heart and sometimes can diminish how effectively the heart pumps blood. so the timing of having done a workout and then collapsing, you know, it may just have been a coincidence. her heart may have been weakened all along, hard to tell but certainly chemotherapy takes a toll on the body. if that s true then do patients of cancer who get chemotherapy are they warned about this. not only warned but monitored. any patient who gets chemotherapy whether it s for brain cancer or whether it s for lung cancer gets liver monitoring, kidney monitoring, mental monitoring because sometimes you can get something called chemo brain where you get fuzzy but for some drugs like adriamycin we know it can weaken the heart and it s part of the patient s follow-up. eleanor mondale, brain cancer, very, very tough. eleanor always talked about the fact that after the first round she really believed her cancer was cured. but brain cancer is particularly this type can be really tough. if you look at brain cancer a lot like your outstretched hand, the palm of your hand really is the bulk of the tumor so doctors will say, well, you know, we took out the tumor and on an x-ray you may think the palm of your hand, the bulk of the tumor is gone but these fingers can be little microscopic bits of tumor that can t show up to the naked eye and may not show up on a re-enactment and it s those microscopic tendrils that can go on to be the secondary cancer later and the treatment can be just as tough. i ve talked to a lot of cancer patients over my life. there s this morbid joke, sometimes people think it s a tumor that s going to get them but the treatment is even tougher and we may be looking at two cases where it was a combination of both. but untimely. really untimely and two really remarkable young women that s the last word we should say about it. thanks so much. and we re back in just a moment. this is today on nbc. > back now at 8:43. from the girls next door as one of hugh hefner s girlfriends to her own self-titled reality show kendra wilkinson has lived most of her past few years in front of the cameras and shared her marriage to hank bassett and the birth of their son. well, now the season seems to promise it isn t always easy. what s in front of our house? bank owned property. foreclosure notice. what the hell has happened? we just got this place. how are we getting kicked out of this place. what is this? someone is about to get it. ooh and she reveals even more in being kendra. crib, cocktails and i m getting my sexy back. you write that nobody has a better story than i do in hollywood. a stripper and a druggy and a girl who lived in the playboy mansion ends up with a loving family and shows you can overcome things and become the person you ve always wanted to be. i know you felt largely that you ve been misunderstood and a lot had to do with the playboy playmate past. how so. we obviously get a bad rap for doing what we do and being part of the playboy world as eddie said before. i wanted to prove that is not who i am. you know, i am while i lived at the mansion i still had dreams about being a mother, being a wife and just being a regular woman. you know and living my dreams. thank goodness all of that is happening but there s been ups and downs which we ve seen on kendra on e! going into the fourth season. you think you are dealing with postpartum depression and wrote something just snapped inside me and i ripped everything off the walls and smashed everything. cleared off the shelves and tables and shattered anything breakable. a lot of this as a new mom. you were there often by yourself. what was it you were going through during that time and what makes you think it was postpartum though you were never diagnosed. all that attitude. i was, you know, in my first book i explained how i was depresseds a teenager and there were similar feelings that i had after having a baby and moving around the country like a couple times and living in ten different homes in two years did not help anything. and so yeah, i had a break l moment braceaking moment and moving around the country. and so, yeah, i had a couple breaking moments and in my book i explain it all. what was going through my head but finally i found myself again and i m more settled now. we finally found a home. that s, you know, on our fourth season. found our home and i m happening now. talking a little bit. yeah, talking. not saying words, but, you know, his the language i understand though. let s talk about dancing with the stars because you did so well last season. you made it through seven weeks. of course, it s starting up again tonight. you were eliminated after seven weeks, so and you said it was not as exactly what you expect. you wrote part of me felt like this is what selling out looks like. what did you mean by that? you know, i never-before-released watched the show before i went on. so i was kind of expecting to have a good time. i was expecting it to be like my experience. i m going to do i m going to have a lot of fun but that wasn t the case. it was a real competition and too stressful. it was a lot of stress and, you know, i was just on the nancy grace show. she was saying the same things and now it s going to be fun to watch them this season and really know what they go through so the only people the people that go on the show are the only people that really know what happens and how hard you have to practice and work. speaking of that, of your dancing partner louis van amstel, you wrote and this a little less than flattering. he called me dyslexic, asked me if i was learning disabled. we did reach out to abc and louis did not give us a comment, as well. but why do you think you had that relationship with him and, in fact, he makes a guest appearance on your new season. is that all water under the bridge now. you know, we were wanting to win, both of us and, you know, he s a professional dancer and that s his job. i mean his job was to mold me into a professional dancer in two weeks and that wasn t happening with me. i ve never danced before and, you know, there was a moment where i couldn t do a certain move and we kind of went at it so. all is forgiven now. that was then. i like to leave the past behind and like to move on and that s why i write books and that s why, you know, i like to talk about my past but then move on with it. it s life. we all make mistake. speak of your new show kendra, the reality show, you did write in the book sometimes things are restaged you write in order for the editors to have continuity when it comes to i.d. editing. we reached out to kevin burns. he said we take great pride in the fact that kendra s show is very honest and authentic. it occasionally happens that we miss an important piece of out quo or an important shot or an important moment. if we ever ask them to say it again we are careful to make sure it s authentic to who they are and what was accurate. how much of what we see is really real? that is the thing about my show is everything is real. we don t have to plan anything. but just by your re-enacting moments. last weekend i was just with my husband for his ten-year reunion and that was the finale for my show and we really needed to get certain things and like the baby would be crying over some stuff we had to say like, oh, it s so great to be together. you know, the last last final thing that is we had to say before we ended the show and the baby was crying so, you know, we had to wait till the baby was done crying then we had to really say what we had to say so i mean there s certain things that we have to resay. that s the reality of all of us. that s reality for you. kendra wilkinson, thanks as always. good l mike, good morning and welcome to you, mike. thanks, ann. a book for middle schoolers ages 10 to 14 and it is not the first book you ve written for them. what is it about you and middle school mike? my wife always said me writing from inside the mind of a 12-year-old boy seemed to be pretty much a perfect fit as far as she could tell. but it s somehow i ve gotten known as the guy who gets reluctant readers to want to read and, you know, i m not writing about vampires or werewolves but kids doing something great and write the kind of books i read about loyalty and friendship and teamwork. this is a poor town in western pennsylvania. it s a classic american town right now. there s not enough mining in the town budget to fund a 12-year-old football team. and the star of the team, a wonderful kid named will tyler takes it upon himself to go raise the money and he writes to the new balance sneaker company that s the surprise you would use the real name of a company. the town was once built around a sneaker company, an old-fashioned one that s out of business. will s father worked there and lost his job. and lost his job and he says in the book that he thinks the only business doing good in mythical forbes, pennsylvania, is the company making the for sale signs in front of the houses so this is a town that s down. and the one thing about my books is somebody is going to get knocked down in my books. in this case it s not just the team but the whole town and somehow he gets the money for the season. and this team in which we even have a girl who gets into play on this they need on the toobl team. they only have ten players and even after he s raised the money he needs one more player and his pals think he s lost his mind and it you know, ann, i always say in my sports column, the great thing about sports is it takes great big places and makes them feel like small towns but in this case it s a small town that rallies around a group of brave 12-year-old kids who get a season that they weren t going to have. you ve written a book that every mother would want her kid to read essentially because it s about overcoming obstacles and write about a topic or theme with what s happening in america right now. so many people trying to overcome obstacle, struggling with joblessness and those kind of difficulties and these kids, their children don t have a way to understand and that s what you re writing about in the book. all it takes to have the season, all i say is $10,000 but in this town, that could be a million or 10 million and once he raises the money and they can get the equipment and they can join the league again, that is that starts the book but it starts with one kid thinking he can take it upon himself to save the season. in fact, there is a little back story and named the girl after your own daughter. you re the father of four kids and you ve got three boys and one girl so have you written a book with all your sons now named in the book because i know this is not ending. the last book i made a rookie what we call a rookie mistake. i named a character after my youngest son and once that happened, i was under tremendous pressure to name a character after my daughter. this book is called the underdolls, mike, thank you. more after this. mistake. i named a character after my youngest son. once that happened i was under tremendous pressure to name a character after my daughter. this book is called the underdogs. thank you, ann. 8:56 is your time on many monday, september 19, 2011. good morning. i m eun yang. let s go right meteorologist kierein for a look at the forecast today. still feeling like fall through out much of the region. temperatures are just now around 60 degrees. later today we ll climb into the low 70s. a little sunshine may peek through from time to time. tomorrow, wednesday, thursday still have report of an accident inner loop of the beltway at telegraph roadblocking the left lane. 3935 northbound at d street an accident. the commute in d.c., a lot of volume on new york avenue. seeing delays on new york avenue passing bladen back now with more on it had on is this monday morning, the 19th day of september, 2011. it s a beautiful day here in rockefeller plaza with some beautiful people stretching out their weekend a little bit so we want to say good for them and good morning to all of them. meantime, i m ann curry along with natalie. and investigators are trying to piece together the details of exactly what went wrong at this air show in reno. you ve seen the video. it s very chilling. new images. they re now showing the plane as it heads toward the crowd killing at least nine and injuring 70 others so we ll get the details on some of that and the investigation. all right. also we think of vaccines we rarely think of our kids but every woman should know about four different vaccines which ones they are and when you should get them so some good health advice coming up and out in los angeles, i guess the celebrations might still be going on. last night was the 63rd annual emmy awards. a lot of laughter, a few tears. we ll have all the best moments and needless to say, ann, we will discuss the fashions. of course, we will, because it s fun. anyway, let s get a check of the news and natalie is sitting there at the news desk. hey, natalie. good morning. good morning, everyone. former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss-kahn appeared on french tv last night in his first interview since a new york hotel maid accused him of sexual assault back in may. nbc s stephanie gosk has the latest from paris. stephanie? reporter: good morning, natalie, well, the french people were looking for an explanation from dominique strauss-kahn. 13 million people tuned in. he was at times angry, repentant and apologetic but his fiercest critics and there are still quite a few, this interview was never going to go far enough for them. dominique strauss-kahn spoke live on french tv to try to salvages what remains of a career and a reputation. composed and stern, the former head of the imf, admitted to an error in judgment when he had sex with a hotel maid in new york city. translator: what happened was not only an inappropriate relationship but more than that, it was an ear or. a failing, i failed my wife and friends and the french people. reporter: but he denied the maid s ago indication that he tried to rape her. last month he was dragged off a flight and held in jill for a week and house arrest for six weeks. translator: i was afraid. i was really afraid. i felt i was trampled on, humiliated even before i had a chance to say a word. reporter: last month in a dramatic reversal the manhattan district attorney dropped all charges against him telling the judge their star witness, the hotel maid, was not credible. but even with the charges dropped, critics wanted to hear more from him. he did not give a credible version of what happened. he didn t give any version of what happened. reporter: the once presidential hopeful said he would no longer run in next year s election and repeatedly said he has paid dearly for his actions. strauss-kahn s legal troubles are not over. has a civil case in new york from the hotel maid and a criminal investigation ongoing in france, a young journalist who accuses him of attempted rape but that is not moving forward at the moment for a lack of physical evidence. natalie? all right, stephanie gosk in paris, thank you, stefr ni. investigators are searching memory cards from an onboard camera for clues to what caused that air show crash that killed nine friday in reno, nevada. a world war ii era plane went down in a crowd of spectators after losing a piece of its tail section. hard to watch that video. well, president obama unveiled his plan to cut the federal deficit by more than $3 trillion today. half of it coming from tax hikes, primarily on the wealthy. earlier on today matt asked former president bill clinton if he would do the same. when i became president, we had a different kind of recession but i asked the same the wealthiest americans who had had their incomes grow the most in eight years before i took office and had had repeated tax cuts to give back some of that money so we could balance the budget and get interest rates down, and it worked. and former president clinton says historically it can take five to ten years for a country to emerge from a recession. and the box office partied like it was 1994 this weekend with a 3-d release of the lion king taking the top spot with $239.3 million. contagion second and drive was third. you re up to date. back outside to ann and savannah. come on in here. this is angeline father right over here. look at her. i m telling you, i think this is a beautiful baby. dissing us for wearing coats. wimpy for wearing near a cr after apparently losing a piece of the tail section. hard to watch that video. president obama unveiled his plan to cut the federal deficit by more than $3 trillion. half coming from tax hikes from the wealthy. earlier this morning matt asked bill clinton if he would do the same? when i became president, we had a different kind of recession. i asked the same, the wealthiest americans who had their incomes grow the most in the eight years before i took office and had had repeated tax cuts to give back some of that money so we could balance the budget and get interest rates down and it worked. former president clinton also said historically it can take five to ten years for a country to emerge from a recession. the box office partied like it was 1994 this week went the 3d release of the lion king taking the top spot with $29.3. contagion was second and drive was third. let s go back outside to ann and savannah. this is angelina right over ok at her. i think ms. jolie better watch out. that is a beautiful baby. i understand stephanie is dissing us for wearing coats. i m a southerner and i don t have my jacket on. that s all right. i will in a matter of time. we have a group that could play pe knuckle. if you could play, where would central park. you don t need the waterproof s a beautiful day. let s have a look at our radar and satellite picture combined from the great lakes down into texas where we need the rain. we re thankful for it. otherwise, sunshine as i mentioned throughout much of the 95 corridor and throughout the southwest. here is a look at what s happening outside your door. cloudiness around on this monday morning. still feeling like fall with temperatures only around 60 ten degrees into the low 70s by maybe a little sunshine in and out. tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday each day cloudy with a chance of a passing shower. but it should be milder. then as we get into the weekend, sunshine returns saturday and sunday. morning lows 50s, afternoon highs low and mid 70s. that s the way it looks. natalie, over to you. thank you, stephanie. now to tv s biggest night, the emmy awards were handed out late last night and kristen dahlgren has all the highlights for us. good morning to you. good morning, natalie. i still haven t slept yet but totally worth it. you could not call this show predictable. had surprises and upsets and one moment that nobody expected. there s no place like tv reporter: after the first few awards were handed out you would have thought modern family was the only thing on tv. oh, my god. julie bowen kicked off the night as outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series. ty, her tv husband, won for supporting actor. modern family. reporter: modern family won five awards including a repeat win for outstanding comedy series. we ve decided to throw them into the drama category just to see what happens. reporter: there was little drama in the drama category. mad money won for the fourth year in a row. julianna margulies won best actress for the good wife . but kyle chandler was the surprise winner for lead actor for the critically acclaimed friday night lights. wow! reporter: the biggest snub of the night, steve carell of the office losing to jim parsons would won outstanding lead comedy act for his role in the big bang theory. oh, this is so odd for so many reasons. reporter: odd perhaps because the award was presented to him by charlie sheen who provided the highlight of the night wishing luck to the cast and crew of two and a half men, the show that fired him last season. from the bottom of my heart, i wish you nothing but the best for this upcoming season. reporter: sheen even posted pictures on twitter taken backstage with ashton kutcher who replaced him on two and a half men. he also tweeted a message to kutcher that read great talking to you. we ll be watching. make us proud. now on to the emmy. [ applause ] reporter: all six nominees for best actors in a comedy series took to the stage and brought the crowd to its feet before melissa mccarthy of mike & molly was crowned the winner. my first and best pageant ever. back to charlie sheen for a second. in the audience we had no idea what was going to come out of sheen s mouth. remember he called co-star john crier, a troll. crier clapped when he took the stage so maybe both sides burying the hatchet. john was at the triathlon as well so he had a busy day. christening dahlgren, thanks so much, as always. who were the winners on the red carpet. jill martin has all of the fashion hits and misses. good morning. so celebrities always drive the trends. let s talk about some of their looks and the trends you saw. first color. what did we see. a ton of red. i joust love that. it s so old hollywood. a lot of the secelebrities. sofia vergara, beautiful and people worked it. all about the dress, it wasn t a lot about the jewelry. and i loved just seeing red on the red carpet. a lot of people didn t like that i thought it was old hollywood and special. minimal jewelry was a big trend, as well. didn t see a lot of necklaces. did see earrings. son sofia vergara, the big colombian. she said everything is big in colombia. she s so much fun but for the most part if we take a look at the jewelry katie holmes wore that calvin klein dress and no jewelry. very little makeup. you see her here. i didn t love her look or dress but it was interesting to see absolutely no jewelry and the people who wore jewelry even if it was cartier or neil lane it was very limited. who were your favorites from last night. well, there aren t a lot. really. more misses than hits but i ll be nice and play the good girl for a little bit. why, first? did you think they were not i was just underwhelmed. i thought that usually people play it safe for the emmys. if you ll go and do it, do it and i think a lot missed. heidi clklum you say that was a big hit. christian siriano, one of the winners of project runway. always fabulous. she was another one who wore jewelry. one of the very fabulous and fun. lea michele. she was so working that red carpet. i just loved her and loved watched her. again, sofia vergara. she would look gorgeous in a paper bag but obviously looked grade and padma in armani prive. metallic, obviously. always neutral and the misses. hate to be the bad girl. gwyneth paltrow. that was very revealing, wasn t it? i don t know what she was thinking. she said on the red carpet. it s a little more see-through than even i expected it. it s gucci and we re talking about this earlier. she could thought maybe the skirt portion you see her stomach. there s no way she thought they are stomach wasn t showing. a lot of people thought it was sexy and hot on her body. i think if you re in the bedroom. it was a little too racy for the red carpet. always on the hit list. always one that makes my list but not in this. julianna margulies, she wore that strapless white dress with kind of these big stones on the front or crystals. i thought this was the worst dress of the night and flew in late the night before. this is armani prive. he actually designed the lady gaga collection and i have to think maybe this was part of it. i just thought it wasn t flattering on her. i didn t like futuristic, right? yes. and a winner for some. for the men it would be but christina hendricks from mad money was showing a little too much cleavage. i just think you need to cover up a little bit. i understand and i know that that s her thing, however, i just think it s a little much. i think it s so distracting that you almost you don t listen i know everyone is laughing here but you don t listen to what she s saying and it was actually a beautiful dress. a little more material would have been appropriate. and then sew i deschanel who has the big poof if i number that was more poof than anything. everybody wanted to see her look fab. kind of edgy usually. but i think you could be edgy. it reminded me of the natalie portman dress but at least that was glam. i thought this was sort of eh and she said it had pockets. you want to come out her new show is coming out. a little bo peepish. jill martin, thanks so much. thank you. coming up next the four vaccines every woman should have that could save your life. later on the best fall movies for a night out with the family. a sneak peek after these messages. announcer ] introducing crest complete whitening plus deep clean. you feel it working, so you know it s working. and that means you re good to go, for whatever the day brings. new crest complete. unlike ordinary toothpaste, you feel a deeper clean. it s a signal that tells you your whole mouth is clean. you re also protected. because most of life happens outside the bathroom. feel it working, know you re covered. with new crest complete, life opens up when you do. thanks, skyler. let s go to last night s highlights. look what sometimes happens with the ordinary bag. it slips. bingo, falls in. mom was mad. mom should have used glad forceflex with the stretchable drawstring that grips the can and stays in place. plus, it has the stretchable strength of forceflex. that s all today for glad tv. 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i love wine. you ll fit right in. first thing in the morning. yes. are you kidding. yes. coming up next kicking up your ordinary chicken dinner with tasty recipes but first this is today on nbc. a, b, c dressing up your chicken. award winning chef giuliano hazan is here. debone it. how simple it is. in the meantime, i ll get some cream into my pepper sauce. one of the chicken dishes is with red, green and yellow peppers, a little bit of heavy cream. parsley in and okay. so the first thing i ll do is remove the skin. i just grab it like this. it comes off very easily and then with a paring knife you can take it off. what s the advantage of getting it with bones and then deboning. one, it s easy and you can impress your friends by doing it. the other it s cheaper but the most important part is that you don t lose the tenderloin. see that part over there that is the best part of the chicken. you get a lot more pieces. you just run your knife like this and your finger and it comes off very easily. now, the tenderloin has a tendon in it, okay, so we do need to remove that, okay. that little white piece. i use a paper towel to grab it like this then a knife and just slowly pull it out, you see. this i cut in half because thin chicken will cook faster and get more bang fileting it. the other side is the same. okay. so the next thing we re going to do is saute the chicken. i ll turn this up. all right. okay. taking these. or these. pound it out. yeah, they re not pounded. nice and thin. we ll put these into the pan and just brown them on both sides this. is butter, a little bit of vegetable oil which prevents the butter from burning and they look like this. you see they re nice and brown and i turn them over. worried about drying it out cook it quickly. that s why i doesn t take a long time to cook. i cut it in half. got it. here s one for you. looks great. and here s fantastic. one for you, as well. i know your next recipe comes from your mom. it s my mother s recipe with ham, capers and anchovies. the ham and the capers, i chop just like this. they re pureed and then in a ski skillet, i dissolve the anchovies then put the ham on. let me turn this on. a lot of flavor. just like that. okay. okay? then i m going to add some grappa. everything is great with grappa. it won t bother you because the alcohol cooks off and we glaze the pan. can you smell it? i smell that grappa. so we put the mixture here of our ham and capers and anchovies. we stir this in like this. how long? so easy. then here a little bit of cream. the reason we use cream in both these, it really brings the flavors together. it carries the flavors and coats the chicken. heavy cream? good heavy cream, yeah. i don t know. good heavy cream. just get to a point where you like this. this is pretty salty, right. just put a little bit of salt and menner on the chickening then put the chicken into the sauce. like i ve done there and i put it in here and then are you ready to taste it? yes. let s go. this is my mother calls it a picante chicken dish. chicken in my household is so boring so i m going to try these at home. this is not boring. this is very flavorful. i love it. it s really tender because of the way we cooked it. we cooked it quickly. the key to that is quickly. it s very easy to do. fabulous. deboning is quick. giuliano hazan, thank up so much. the recipes on our website, today.com. more on the emmy awards and the latest celebrity buzz. as i read this with my mouth full. 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as a guy, you re challenged every year because there is always football on. it s like, football! football/emmys. i watched the emmys. you re one of us girls. i thought it was fun. a lot of people took shots at it. i liked the charlie sheen thing. i thought it was a wacky little bit. what i like about the emmys, they don t take themselves that seriously. the oscars, they get up there and talk about the journey and the craft and everything, movies. these guys are enjoying it. they love tv. i agree. it s better to watch. one of my favorite moments was when they did the best leading actress in a comedy. they announced amy poehler first. just the announcement, amy poehler goes darting up on the stage. they didn t announce the winner. then they all get up there and it s like a big pageant scene. melissa mccarthy ends up winning. i loved her. she is in mike and molly but she was in the bridesmaids. she was so genuinely happy when kate winslet won being a movie star, she was self-important. she was just, i can t believe i m here. it was great to watch. she talked about she was from plainville and couldn t believe she was up there. an absolute cutie pie. i loved when jimmy fallon, jimmy kimmel out together and came out to present and it turned into this crazy wrestling match. what it was, jimmy fallon said he did not have an acceptance speech in his pocket and jimmy kimmel was going to prove him wrong. you know what s great about jimmy also? when his series didn t win the best series, instead of doing the clap everybody does, he was like. obviously, he s being funny. he is one of the nicest guys. both those guys are such nice guys. and it s jimmy fallon s birthday. happy birthday, brother. we love him so much on this show. he is such a nice guy. he is so genuine and so talented and genuine. people pick this as the big headline for the whole night. it didn t resonate as much with me. charlie sheen presented the lead actor award. he got up and he made a little speech. everyone said this was the moment of the night. why don t you look at it and you decide. from the bottom of my heart, i wish you nothing but the best for this upcoming season. we spent eight wonderful years together and i know you will continue to make great television. now on to the emmy. i don t know. i think he is a better actor than that. he should have done it with a joke afterwards. it didn t feel genuine. it was the right thing to do, obviously. the sexy story is bringing the guy down and bring him back up. you think the sexiest story was one person. no, the sexy story in the media. bring up your christina hendricks. that s not true. don t tell kathie lee. i said i have a crush on kathie lee. this is donny sexiest girl. explain to me. she is adorable and gorgeous. what is it about her a that makes her your number one. i think she is kind of like old school glam. i love red hair. you only can think of two things you like about her. the dress and the hair. what are the other two things. the color of her skin. she is old school hollywood like sophia lorne. i can t keep going like this. she was your favorite. i think she is gorgeous. what about sophia vagara and kate winslet s dress. they both were in red. i love that look. these are gorgeous women. what did you think of gwyneth paltrow. she wore the mid drif. she is bone thin. i wasn t a huge fan. she is beautiful. even for they are sha wasn t flattering. when you wear something, i wear those midriffs also. jill was talking about this in the earlier hour, they were glammed up every place else. i can t believe i m talking about fashion. let me ask you a question. you dated many, many women. let s pretend, we talked about this last week on the show with kath. if you were wearing an outfit and you turn to your guy and you say, hey, what do you think of this? what if you were going out with gwyneth paltrow and she had this dress on, what would you say to her on the way out? honest to god? i would say, you always look amazing. for some reason i ve seen stuff look better on you. you look great in this and this and this. this doesn t accentuate what looks great. that doesn t mean i m right. i m not one of these guys, i want a woman to wear this. she has to feel what she feels. do you care what your girlfriend is wearing? does it matter? only if it was inappropriate at a business meeting. i want her to be happy. she s got to be who she is. never one of these guys they want them to have blonde hair or wear this. it s okay to say, i like this. a woman is going to be happy if she is doing her thing. i keep doing this again. you can t help it. if you re paging through the pages of architectural digest, this is an apartment you ve seen. i ve only seen it because my book party was in there. this is donny s apartment in architectural digest. it changed completely. we trashed it. are those your shoes? okay. i can t believe there are all these great pictures and you show my shoes. i have t-shirts and jeans and long-sleeved t-shirts and shoes. did you design this whole deal? i have a great architect. it s i a fun, happy place. i hope you have pictures of my little girls rooms. that s their play room. that s my dad s painting in the back. that is happy, london, daisy, 8 and 4, the most delicious things in the world. we eat in there, we do the wii and the dance thing. i forget what it s called, but you put on the britney spears and it s a contest. you dance with them? i dance with them. how cute are you? if i had more kids, i want all girls. there is something about daddy and their girls. i find it less this is going to sound sexist. if i had a boy, i would feel i have to mold them. with a girl, i want them to be great and teach them. around you worried about when they get to the dating age. you have one daughter way beyond that. she is 24, yes. it s scary when they get to that age. how would you navigate that? this is counterintuitive. i talked about this last week. i m not going to be one of these dads, i don t want my daughter dating till she is 30. i would rather my daughter s first relationship when she is 16 and 17 to be with a loving boy that has a good experience than not have a relationship until she is 21 and it be a jerky guy. i want their relationships to be happy. that s natural at 16 or 17, whatever that is. as a parent, you pick the age, but the guy comes in, i m going to hit him with a baseball bat. if he s a nice guy. you aren t worried about some of the guys? there are a lot of. . if they re jerks, they die. that that s it. they ll never love anybody like daddy. everybody understands that. exactly. i want them to be with sweet boys i can beat up. by the way, on sunday this has nothing to do with anything. i woke up and looked on my twitter and i had been hacked. my twitter, someone figured out i guess my password and sent out an e-mail on some scam thing like a way to work at home, get a job at home. people were writing back saying, hey, thanks so much. i ll try this work at home thing. i didn t know how to pull it back. if someone retweets what you tweet, you can t pull it off. it s out there it s a big pain in the neck when that happens. you tweet. i tweet. there is too much of everything going on. too much interconnectivity. something is going to go wrong there. yuck. it s i time for our favorite things. i m going to go with this. it s the summertime. it s the fall and you have to put on make-up and all that stuff. i hate putting on make-up on the weekends. this is called glow minerals. you put a primer on your face. all you do is, it s like a thick base powder. you don t have to put a foundation and powder. it s a one-stop shopping all in one. look at that. glo minerals. what is yours? this is for all the women out there forget expensive watches. i love wearing these g-shock watches. they are 100 bucks and they re cool. who says you have to wear a serious watch with a suit. this one is glow in the dark. it s fun. these g-shocks. you would wear this with a suit? not the yellow one. i wear white with the suit. what is that telling people? i take myself seriously, but there is a wink going on. great present for the husbands out there. who needs an expensive watch? nobody. this is cooler. i m going to put this one on. show off. what have you got, sara? listen up, this is good. this is omira lip gloss. why don t you come over here? i want to sit with sara. we don t spend any time together. this is amazing. pomegranate, spf 15. this is something a man would put on? of course. go. it s $12 at sephora. i m going to have to wipe that off. i m not supposed to wear this. you re fine. you dance with your daughters, sit on the heart chairs. remember football/emmys. he s owning it right now. this is pomegranate flavor, but it moisturizes your lips. you don t need to put anything else on. i like it. i m being completely serious here. you like it, don t you? otherwise i m revealing too much here. why can t lip gloss taste like pomegranate? this feels good. i would never put this on i would, but i wouldn t tell anybody. we have two people over there. we have to say hi to a couple of people visiting us, brandy and laura. we are glad they came to visit. we ve got a lot coming up. keep the cutest babies coming. they re all cute. ages birth to 2. only one entry per person. you can look all day long. look at that cute. william and harrison. go to our facebook page. you can t choose. oh, my god! look at hunter. keep sending your baby s pictures in. we are going to narrow it down and have the cutest baby. we ll pick them. i don t know how that will happen. how do you do that? who does that? we can t reveal that. i heard steve burke is being called in from nbc headquarters. next, kendra walkerson s wild ride from stripper to new mom. she is with us. a look at last night s emmys. 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[ male announcer ] swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning. starting now, i m in charge of all things. the playboy club hasn t hit the air waves, already the nbc drama is stirring up controversy. the show is set in the early 60s and stars eddie cibrian and nick dalton and a penchant for bunnies. evening trip, nice work. who knew you could be such a good lawyer. she new? glad you re having fun. first of all, cheers to your new show. we brought vina. took you coming on the show to give as little wine. just watching the clips puts you right in that era. is it a blast to shoot that? it really is. that era is, the style, there s something care-free about that era where people are more social. you didn t have the internet. you didn t have cell phones. you didn t have any of those distractio distractions. it s fun. we want to be there. everything was better. there was drinking, it was easy, there were no seat belts. no one had helmets. the interesting thing about hefner s role or nonrole in this movie is like a charlie s angels. it s not the story about hugh hefner and the creation of his empire. he is omni present throughout the series. he started the playboy club in the early 60s. you play an attorney, but you re not your typical everyday attorney. you have strange family lineage? i do. he was the fixture for the mob. he helped the mob out, fixing their problems, whatever they may be. he was a mob attorney. he was raised by the mob. he is trying to break free from that and do good. that s his conflict. then he gets involved with the new bunny that comes into town and helps her out with something. you get involved with the new bunny in town. and she s bad. does leanne rimes come on the set and watch the shenanigans? does she enjoy it? she does enjoy it. the playboy club they built is fantastic. it is two stories. it is huge and big and all the extras in there everyone is smoking and drinking. you feel like you re in the early 60s there. we were talking about guys, tell your wife how to dress, color hair. i hear you re very prescriptive with her. we made a joke once. the only thing i do is tell herring to wear a bikini because she looks so awesome. you have a picture? there have been parent groups upset with the show that hasn t hit the air yet. do you understand the concerns about this? i think the controversy stems from the playboy brand itself and all the preconceived ideas parents have of that, whether good or bad. to be honest with you, it has nothing to do with our show. teen moms with all the crud that s on tv, if anything, the sexuality in that era was much more much more tame. there is a big thing about all the women signing nudity clauses. they re nude all the time on our show. it s crazy. it s crazy. there is always a nude scene in our show. you re too good looking. it s great. thank you. good luck tonight. cheers. good luck with your show. seat belts are good. that came out wrong. we all know that. you can catch eddie in the playboy club 10:00, 9:00 central. up next how to raise a happy child. 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[ male announcer ] get to a better state. time for back to school today. a look at happiness in your child. there is no parent who doesn t want their child to succeed. can pushing them too hard deprive them of natural joy? christine carter is a mom as well as author of raising happiness ten simple steps for joyful kids and more happier parents. how are you? em s happy. when you re happy, when the parents are happy, it s through osmosis your kids become joyful? absolutely. that s one of the best things parents can do for their kids happiness and success is being happy yourself. happiness is contagious. aren t people hard wired. some people seem cranky by nature. some people are hard wired in a way that it makes it so they are not as happy. happiness is a habit. what s the key to raising kids? we have the overburdened shoulder today, so much activity, so much pressure. how do you on the one hand raise them to be successful so they can compete, but not overburden them? six hours of homework is ridiculous. it is. these kids are under a lot of pressure. one thing parents can do is give them the skills they need to cope with the stress. we need to foster resiliency in our kids because the world is stressful. one way is to take a look at their emotional well-being to give them the routines and habits and practices they need to be happy. you re saying if they are happy first, then they will be successful in whatever they re doing, a joyful kid is better at math or science or sports or whatever? yeah. i think that s one of the most surprising things we have that is coming out of the research. it shows that happiness precedes success. when we are really positive or our kids are happy or positive, we are more creative, which makes us better problem solvers, more energetic, more motivated. let me ask you a challenging question. you have a kid and they re being ostracized by their peers. kids can be so cruel. they are not doing well in school. it s hard for that kid to be happy. good point. actually, i think that is a very good case for carving out a space in that child s life where they can have some positivity. these things can spiral downward. when you re not happy socially, not happy in school, you need to have some arena of your life which things are going well so those positive emotions can bolster you to get through the challenges. i remember as a kid being happy when i was good at something. when you sink the basket, you re like, i love this, i m good at this. as opposed to i m happy first and i ll sink the basket. i thought it was the other way around. it s not that success doesn t lead us to be happy, especially temporarily. when parents see that happening with their kids, they can say you did really well in that game. you must have that practice paid off. pointing back to the process. we teach kids, be happy, yet you re not always going to be happy. i don t think saying be happy, be happy is the most important thing. feel what you really feel. learn how to cope with the difficult emotions is one of the most important factors in a happy life. thank you. appreciate it. bob harper is shaking things up in the kitchen. what is that? oh, we call it the bundler. let s say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online. [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. great! did i mention no hands in the bundler? bundling and saving made easy. now, that s progressive. call or click today. it s time to get fit today. bob harper has been leading nbc s biggest losers to a healthier way of life for years. he is here to help everyone at home with low-calorie, but great-tasting recipes. how are you? every time he s on, kathie lee is off. i know. she is avoiding me. let s get to breakfast. that is a tough thing to grab on the go. that s why i like these protein muffins. you ve got to have protein. you ll be satiated longer. this is sweetened with apple sauce. i ve got cinnamon in there. that s about 200 calories. you are going to get about 22 grams. good. he likes. it has no sugar. apple sauce. okay. is 400 calories good for breakfast? absolutely. you want to eat bigger in the morning and leaner at night, right? like a king, a prince and a pauper. exactly. this could be a great lunch or dinner. grilled halibut. you can get more spinach. throw in the walnuts. what about dressing? that s the key. you can t eat it like that. the dressing we do is a balsamic vinegar. throw greek yogurt, gives it a creamy texture. a little bit of olive oil. i don t want the calories, but i want the good fat. mix it up and throw that on top of the salad. if you want this at night, take out the sweet potatoes. i don t want you to have carbohydrates at night. you can t have them at night. what s here? meatless monday. these are black bean tacos. great source of fiber with the tortillas. black beans. tomatoes and onions. i m going to try that right now. you re a healthy eater. you get right in there. you don t care. it s good. you get two of these about 400 calories. i m looking at about 400 calories. you can lower the calories if you take the sweet potatoes out at night. he s having breakfast here. this looks delish. bob s skinny shake. greek yogurt, unsweetened almond milk and berries. unsweetened almond milk? this is how you roll. that s hilarious. that way it all works together. dip the halibut in. don t do it. he s terrorizing my food. terrible. kathie lee is back tomorrow. donny, thank you for coming to see us. tomorrow the millionaire matchmaker will be here to find out why things annoy you. don t say anything. love you. love you. have a great day. captions by vitac www.vitac.com that have earned the keurig brewed seal of approval. the keurig brewed seal is our commitment that the coffee inside will deliver a delicious cup of coffee every time.